The county's 10 elected officials, the executive leadership and their staff members were being treated to Angel Soft four-ply toilet tissue.

The four-ply paper costs less than a third of a penny more per sheet compared to two-ply, the newspaper reported. But those costs add up. Riverside County spent $270,000 on toilet paper in 2008.

And so now, the glory days of four-ply toilet paper are coming to an end.

"If we can save money, we will be switching," county spokesman Tom Freeman told the Times. "We've all taken a 10 percent pay cut. We stopped the process of people taking the government cars home, that type of thing. This is being taken very seriously."